Point of Rental Hires Former United Rentals IT Expert Lisa Wessinger
Point of Rental Software has hired Lisa Wessenger, formerly with United Rentals, as a data analyst and reporting engineer, providing custom reports for rental stores.
“I looked at [Point of Rental’s] website and read the newsletters and thought, ‘Oh my gosh, I want to work there so bad,” Wessenger said. She applied for a bilingual trainer position, despite speaking only English, just to get her resume in the building, Point of Rental officials said.
Wessenger’s first job was with Mango Equipment in Shreveport, La., where she managed the office, acted as an executive assistant, and wrote software. She has spent the past 20 years with NES Rentals and United Rentals, consolidating databases and training employees remotely. In her new role with Point of Rental, Wessenger will be working on rental data and customer service.
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.